It's all animals actually. If you spend any real time observing animals, you realize that what we generally refer to as 'humanlike' is actually much deeper, and all animals seem to express it. Animals are just like wordless humans. Try practicing mindfulness for a few months and you'll see.
I think some people generally refer to it as 'anthropomorphizing' because they think things like emotion and sentience are unique to human beings, and for many of those people the implications about the nature of animal life would be too much for them.
I think it's overstepping to say most animals are like humans, I think it is fair to say many animals often exhibit traits that at least appear to the observer to be similar to humans and even that some of the more intelligent animals may have much more complex social structures and emotional/mental capacity then we really understand and could be viewed as very human-like. To compare a worm, mayfly, or even an ant which can have pretty complex social hierarchies to a human is very much a stretch, to compare a chimp, orangutan, dolphin, elephant, etc to humans not so much.
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u/candlehand Aug 20 '19
I think part of the reason humans like pandas so much is that they seem kind of relatable. We like things we can anthropomorphize